John Hughes, the writer-director-producer who first gained fame in the early ’80s with teen angst comedies like The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, died Thursday in Manhattan of a heart attack. He was 59. While his other teen classics Sixteen Candles and Pretty in Pink forever linked him with actress-muse Molly Ringwald, Hughes actually wrote and directed a number of other successful movies like Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Uncle Buck for the late great comedian John Candy. Additionally, he wrote a number of the National Lampoon movies and later scripted films like Drillbit Taylor under a pseudonym, Edmond Dantès.

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“That’s right, I’m Abe Froman.”

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